We are a non-profit organization with broadcast-quality studios and experienced, volunteer readers who support the mission of Recorded Recreational Reading for the Blind, a 50-year old 501(c)3 organization in Arizona which provides recorded material for people with low-vision. Our Book recording division helps support the continuing operation of RRRB.
Our Audio Book Service Includes:
- You choose from a selection of trained, experienced narrators
- Professional recording studios with voice booths, sound engineer, digital recording equipment and producer
- Advanced research on pronunciations and technical or unfamiliar wordings
- Throughout the recordings, adherence to audio book industry standards
- Editing of all files to ensure proper volume levels and clarity
- Post-recording clean-up, addressing technical errors and editing/re-uploading files, as needed
- Collaboration with author to upload completed files and book cover artwork to the appropriate platform
Our narrators are trained to record the following genres:
- Autobiography
- Biography
- Business
- Children’s Books
- Classics
- Fiction
- Faith-based
- History
- Humor
- Memoir
- Mystery
- Non-Fiction
- Romance
- Short Stories
- Young Adult Titles
What does it cost to get your book recorded?
While 9,000 printed words is approximately an hour of recorded reading time, it may take the combined efforts of a narrator and sound engineer three or more hours to complete. However, we have a simple system and charge for only the total time of the recorded reading and uploading of the audio file to a platform selected by the author.
We charge $150 for each finished hour of the recorded reading and $50 per hour for uploading the audio file.
For example, once an audio book has been completed, if the total recorded time for the entire book is ten hours long, the recording charge would be $1,500 (10hrs @ $150/hr). If the book is five hours long, this charge would be $750.
Our minimum charge is $300.
Please note that our audio book production is limited to the professional recording of it: we do not include marketing, sales, distribution or book cover design.
